Bram Stoker -kirjallisuuspalkinto

Horror Writers Association jakaa vuosittain Bram Stoker -palkintoja parhaille kauhukirjoille. Palkintoja on jaettu yhdistyksen perustamisvuodesta 1987 lähtien. Koska jotkut kirjailijayhdistyksen jäsenistä kokivat kirjoittajien välisen kilpailuasetelman epämiellyttäväksi, palkintoja ei myönnetä vuoden parhaista vaan ”for superior achievement”, ”erinomaisesta suorituksesta”.

Palkinto voidaan myöntää mille tahansa englanniksi julkaistulle kauhukirjalle sen julkaisuvuonna. Horror Writers Associationin jäsenet voivat suositella ehdokkaita. Seuran aktiiviset jäsenet äänestävät ehdokkaista kahden kierroksen aikana ensin finalistit ja sitten voittajat. Palkinto on pronssinen pienoismalli kummitustalosta.

Välillä palkintoa jaettiin 12 eri kategoriassa, nykyisin kategorioita on kahdeksan: romaani, esikoisromaani, novelli (short fiction), pitkänovelli (long fiction), novellikokoelma, runokokoelma, antologia ja tietokirja. Lisäksi satunnaisesti jaetaan elämäntyö-Stokereita.

Romaanisarjan voittajat:

2022: Gabino Iglesias: The Devil Takes You Home
2021: Stephen Graham Jones: My Heart is a Chainsaw
2020: Stephen Graham Jones: The Only Good Indians
2019: Owl Goingback: Coyote Rage
2018: Paul Tremblay: The Cabin at the End of the World
2017: Christoper Golden: Ararat
2016: John Langan: The Fisherman
2015: Paul Tremblay: Head Full of Ghosts
2014: Steve Rasnic Tem: Blood Kin
2013: Stephen King: Tohtori Uni
2012: Caitlín R. Kiernan: The Drowning Girl
2011: Joe McKinney: Flesh Eaters
2010: Peter Straub: A Dark Matter
2009: Sarah Langan: Audrey’s Door
2008: Stephen King: Tapahtumapaikkana Duma Key
2007: Sarah Langan: The Missing
2006: Stephen King: Liseyn tarina
2005: David Morrell: Creepers, Charlee Jacob: Dread in the Beast
2004: Peter Straub: In the Night Room
2003: Peter Straub: Lost Boy, Lost Girl
2002: Tom Piccirilli: The Night Class
2001: Neil Gaiman: Unohdetut jumalat
2000: Richard Laymon: The Traveling Vampire Show
1999: Peter Straub: Mr. X
1998: Stephen King: Kalpea aavistus
1997: Janet Berliner & George Guthridge: Children of the Dusk
1996: Stephen King: Kuoleman käytävä
1995: Joyce Carol Oates: Zombie
1994: Nancy Holder: Dead in the Water
1993: Peter Straub: The Throat
1992: Thomas F. Monteleone: Blood of the Lamb
1991: Robert R. McCammon: Boy’s Life
1990: Robert R. McCammon: Mine
1989: Dan Simmons: Carrion Comfort
1988: Thomas Harris: Uhrilampaat
1987: Stephen King: Piina, Robert R. McCammon: Swan Song

Romaanisarjan ehdokkaat

2022: Alma Katsu: The Fervor, Gwendolyn Kiste: Reluctant Immortals, Josh Malerman: Daphne, Catriona Ward: Sundial
2021: V. Castro: The Queen of the Cicadas, Grady Hendrix: The Final Girl Support Group, Cynthia Pelayo: Children of Chicago, Chuck Wendig: The Book of Accidents
2020: Alma Katsu: The Deep, Todd Keisling: Devil’s Creek, Josh Malerman: Malorie, Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Mexican Gothic
2019: Josh Malerman: Inspection, S. P. Miskowski: The Worst is Yet to Come, Lee Murray: Into the Ashes, Chuck Wendig: Wanderers
2018: Alma Katsu: The Hunger, Jonathan Maberry: Glimpse, Josh Malerman: Unbury Carol, Dacre Stoker ja J. D. Barker: Dracul
2017: Stephen King ja Owen King: Ruususen uni, Josh Malerman: Black Mad Wheel, S. P. Miskowski: I Wish I Was Like You, Steve Rasnic Tem: Ubo
2016: Elizabeth Hand: Hard Light: A Cass Neary Crime Novel, Stephen Graham Jones: Mongrels, Bracken MacLeod: Stranded : A Novel, Paul Tremblay: Disappearance at Devil’s Rock
2015: Clive Barker: The Scarlet Gospels, Michaelbrent Collings: The Deep, JG Faherty: The Cure, Patrick Freivald: Black Tide
2014: Craig DiLouie: Suffer the Children, Patrick Freivald: Jade Sky, Chuck Palahniuk: Beautiful You, Christopher Rice: The Vines
2013: Joe Hill: NOS4A2, Lisa Morton: Malediction, Sarah Pinborough ja F. Paul Wilson: A Necessary End, Christopher Rice: The Heavens Rise
2012: Benjamin Kane Ethridge: Bottled Abyss, John Everson: NightWhere, Bentley Little: The Haunted, Joe McKinney: Inheritance
2011: Christopher Conlon: A Matrix Of Angels, Greg Lamberson: Cosmic Forces, Ronald Malfi: Floating Staircase, Gene O’Neill: Not Fade Away, Lee Thomas: The German
2010: Joe Hill: Sarvet, Jonathan Maberry: Rot and Ruin, Linda Watanabe McFerrin: Dead Love, Joe McKinney: Apocalypse of the Dead, Jeff Strand: Dweller
2009: Jonathan Maberry: Patient Zero, Joe McKinney: Quarantined, Jeremy Shipp: Cursed
2008: Gary Braunbeck: Coffin County, Nate Kenyon: The Reach, Gregory Lamberson: Johnny Gruesome
2007: Bruce Boston: The Guardener’s Tale, Joe Hill: Sydämen muotoinen rasia, Erika Mailman: The Witch’s Trinity, Dan Simmons: The Terror
2006: Tom Piccirilli: Headstone City, Jonathan Maberry: Ghost Road Blues, Jeff Strand: Pressure, Gary A. Braunbeck: Prodigal Blues
2005: Gary A. Braunbeck: Keepers, Tom Piccirilli: November Mourns
2004: P. D Cacek: The Wind Caller, Stephen King: Musta torni VII: Musta torni, Michael Laimo: Deep in the Darkness
2003: Stephen King: Musta torni V: Callan sudet, James A. Moore: Serenity Falls, Stewart O’Nan: The Night Country, Tom Piccirilli: A Choir of Ill Children
2002: Douglas Clegg: The Hour Before Dark, Stephen King: Buick 8, Chuck Palahniuk: Lullaby, Alice Sebold: Oma taivas
2001: Ray Bradbury: From the Dust Returned, Jack Ketchum: The Lost, Stephen King & Peter Straub: Pimeyden talo
2000: Gary A. Braunbeck: The Indifference of Heaven, Ramsey Campbell: Silent Children, Brian A. Hopkins: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, Tom Piccirilli: The Deceased
1999: Owl Goingback: Darker than Night, Thomas Harris: Hannibal, Stephen King: Low Men in Yellow Coats, Tom Piccirilli: Hexes
1998: Dean R. Koontz: Ilman pelkoa, S.P. Somtow: Darker Angels, Thomas Tessier: Fog Heart
1997: Stephen Dobyns: The Church of Dead Girls, Tananarive Due: My Soul to Keep, Tim Powers: Earthquake Weather
1996: Poppy Z. Brite: Exquisite Corpse, Owl Goingback: Crota, Peter Straub: The Hellfire Club
1995: Billie Sue Mosiman: Widow, Yvonne Navarro: Deadrush, Alan Rodgers: Bone Music
1994: Caleb Carr: The Alienist, Jonathan Carroll: From the Teeth of Angels, Stephen King: Uneton yö, Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy
1993: Kim Newman: Anno Dracula, Bradley Denton: Blackburn, Poppy Z. Brite: Drawing Blood, Bentley Little: The Summoning
1992: Matthew Costello: Homecoming, Brian Hodge: Deathgrip, Dean R. Koontz: Pakopaikka, Dan Simmons: Children of the Night
1991: Thomas M. Disch: The M.D., Stephen King: Tarpeellista tavaraa, Stephen King: Musta torni III: Joutomaa, Dan Simmons: Summer of Night
1990: Richard Laymon: Funland, Chet Williamson: Reign, Joe R. Lansdale: Savage Season
1989: Katherine Dunn: Geek Love, Charles L. Grant: In a Dark Dream, Dean R. Koontz: Keskiyö, Robert R. McCammon: The Wolf’s Hour
1988: Robert R. McCammon: Stinger, F. Paul Wilson: Black Wind, Joe R. Lansdale: The Drive-In, Anne Rice: Kadotettujen kuningatar, Richard Laymon: Flesh
1987: Ray Garton: Live Girls, Kem Nunn: Unassigned Territory, Chet Williamson: Ash Wednesday

Esikoisromaanisarjan voittajat:

2022: Christi Nogle: Beulah
2021: Hailey Piper: Queen of Teeth
2020: EV Knight: The Fourth Whore
2019: Sarah Read: The Bone Weaver’s Orchard
2018: Gwendolyn Kiste: The Rust Maidens
2017: Robert Payne Cabeen: Cold Cuts
2016: Tom Deady: Haven
2015: Nicole Cushing: Mr. Suicide
2014: Maria Alexander: Mr. Wicker
2013: Rena Mason: The Evolutionist
2012: L.L. Soares: Life Rage
2011: Allyson Bird: Isis Unbound
2010: Lisa Morton: The Castle of Los Angeles, Benjamin Kane Ethridge: Black & Orange
2009: Hank Schwaeble: Damnable
2008: Lisa Mannetti: The Gentling Box
2007: Joe Hill: Sydämen muotoinen rasia
2006: Jonathan Maberry: Ghost Road Blues
2005: Weston Ochse: Scarecrow Gods
2004: Lee Thomas: Stained, John Everson: Covenant
2003: Brian Keene: The Rising
2002: Alice Sebold: Oma taivas
2001: Michael Oliveri: Deadliest of the Species
2000: Brian A. Hopkins: The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club
1999: J.G. Passarella: Wither
1998: Michael Marano: Dawn Song
1997: Kirsten Bakis: Lives of the Monster Dogs
1996: Owl Goingback: Crota
1995: Lucy Taylor: The Safety of Unknown Cities
1994: Michael Arnzen: Grave Markings
1993: Nina Kiriki Hoffman: The Thread that Binds the Bones
1992: Elizabeth Massie: Sineater
1991: Melanie Tem: Prodigal, 1991: Kathe Koja: The Cipher
1990: Bentley Little: The Revelation
1989: Nancy A. Collins: Musta yö – Tummat lasit
1988: Kelley Wilde: The Suiting
1987: Lisa Cantrell: The Manse

Esikoisromaanisarjan ehdokkaat:

2022: Erin Adams: Jackal, Isabel Cañas: The Hacienda, KC Jones: Black Tide, Ally Wilkes: All the White Spaces
2021: Lisa Quigley: The Forest, S. Alessandro Martinez: Helminth, Terry Miles: Rabbits, Nicol Willson: Tidepool, LaTanya McQueen: When the Reckoning Comes
2020: Polly Hall: The Taxidermist’s Lover, Rachel Harrison: The Return, Ross Jeffery: Tome, Kate Reed: Petty True Story
2019: Gemma Amor: Dear Laura, Eric J. Guignard: Doorways to the Deadeye, Michelle Renee Lane: Invisible Chains, Caitlin Starling: The Luminous Dead
2018: Julia Fine: What Should Be Wild, T. E. Grau: I Am the River, Zoje Stage: Baby Teeth, Tony Tremblay: The Moore House
2017: Andy Davidson: In the Valley of the Sun, Matt Hayward: What Do Monsters Fear?, Jeremy Hepler: The Boulevard Monster, Scott Thomas: Kill Creek
2016: Barbara Barnett: The Apothecary’s Curse, Greg Chapman: Hollow House, Michelle Garza ja Melissa Lason: Mayan Blue, Stephanie Wytowich: The Eighth
2015: Courtney Alameda: Shutter, Brian Kirk: We Are Monsters, John McIlveen: Hannahwhere, John Claude Smith: Riding the Centipede
2014: J.D. Barker: Forsaken, David Cronenberg: Consumed, Michael Knost: Return of the Mothman, Josh Malerman: Bird Box
2013: Kate Jonez: Candy House, John Mantooth: The Year of the Storm, Jonathan Moore: Redheads, Royce Prouty: Stoker’s Manuscript
2012: Michael Boccacino: Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, Deborah Coates: Wide Open, Charles Day: The Legend of the Pumpkin Thief, Peter Dudar: A Requiem for Dead Flies, Richard Gropp: Bad Glass
2011: John Hornor Jacobs: Southern Gods, Frazer Lee: The Lamplighters, Thomas Roche: The Panama Laugh, Brett J. Talley: That Which Should Not Be
2010: Gemma Files: A Book of Tongues, Lucy A. Snyder: Spellbent
2009: S. G. Browne: Breathers, Daniel G. Keohane: Solomon’s Grave, Paul Tremblay: The Little Sleep
2008: Christopher Conlon: Midnight on Mourn Street, Michael McCarty and Mark McLaughlin: Monster Behind the Wheel, David Oppegaard: The Suicide Collectors, Joel A. Sutherland: Frozen Blood
2007: Michael Louis Calvillo: I Will Rise, John R. Little: The Memory Tree, Mary SanGiovanni: The Hollower
2006: Sarah Langan: The Keeper, Nate Kenyon: Bloodstone, Alexandra Sokoloff: The Harrowing
2005: Kealan Patrick Burke: The Hides, Alan M. Clark ja Jeremy Robert Johnson: Siren Promised
2004: James Kidman: Black Fire, Nick Mamatas: Move Under Ground
2003: William D. Gagliani: Wolf’s Trap, Jeffrey Thomas: Monstrocity, Jeff Vandermeer: Veniss Underground
2002: Tina Jens: The Blues Ain’t Nothing, Michael Laimo: Atmosphere, Scott Nicholson: The Red Church
2001: Diana Barron: Phantom Feast, d.g.k. goldberg: Skating on the Edge, Joe Nassise: Riverwatch
2000: Simon Clark: Nailed by the Heart, Mark Z. Danielewski: House of Leaves, Douglas E. Winter: Run
1999: Steve Beai: Widow’s Walk, John Connolly: Every Dead Thing, China Miéville: King Rat
1998: P.D. Cacek: Night Prayers, Charlee Jacob: This Symbiotic Fascination, Caitlin R. Kiernan: Silk
1997: Stephen Dedman: The Art of Arrow Cutting, Barry Hoffman: Hungry Eyes, Mary Ann Mitchell: Drawn to the Grave, Mary Murrey: The Inquisitor
1996: Donald R. Burleson: Flute Song, Greg Kihn: Horror Show, Del Stone: Dead Heat
1995: Gary Bowen: Diary of a Vampire, Tananarive Due: The Between, Robert Girardi: Madeleine’s Ghost, Edo van Belkom: Wyrm Wolf
1994: Jay R. Bonansinga: The Black Mariah, Robert Devereaux: Deadweight, Nancy Kilpatrick: Near Death
1993: Yvonne Navarro: Afterage, Richard Christian Matheson: Created By, Anne Billson: Suckers, Philip Nutman: Wet Work
1992: Poppy Z. Brite: Lost Souls, Brian D’Amato: Beauty, Gary Raisor: Less Than Human, Wayne Allen Salee: The Holy Terror
1991: Chris Curry & L. Dean James: Winter Scream, Dennis Danvers: Wilderness, Ashley McConnell: Unearthed
1990: Alan Rodgers: Blood of the Children, Tom Piccirilli: Dark Father, T. Chris Martindale: Nightblood
1989: Tom Elliott (JW Paine): The Dwelling, Douglas Clegg: Goat Dance, Dean Wesley Smith: Laying The Music To Rest, Jean Paiva: The Lilith Factor
1988: Michael Paine: Cities of the Dead, Kevin J. Anderson: Resurrection, Inc., Allen Lee Harris: Deliver Us From Evil, J. Michael Straczynski: Demon Night, John L. Byrne: Fear Book
1987: Clive Barker: Kadotuksen peli, Rex Miller: Slob, Tony Richards: The Harvest Bride, Steve Rasnic Tem: Excavation

Palkinnon muista voittajista Kirjavinkeissä on arvosteltu seuraavat teokset:

2010: Stephen King: Pimeä yö, tähdetön taivas (novellikokoelma)
2003: J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter ja Feeniksin kilta (nuortenkirja)
2002: Neil Gaiman: Coraline varjojen talossa (nuortenkirja)
2000: Stephen King: Kirjoittamisesta (tietokirja)
1995: Jonathan Carroll: Panic Hand (novellikokoelma)

Muista ehdokkaista on arvosteltu seuraavat teokset:

2005: China Mieville: Looking for Jake (novellikokoelma)
2002: Neil Gaiman: Coraline varjojen talossa (pitkänovelli)
2000: J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter ja liekehtivä pikari (nuortenkirja)
1998: Garth Ennis: Preacher (”illustrated narrative”)

Elämäntyöpalkinnon ovat saaneet seuraavat Kirjavinkeissä esiintyvät kirjailijat: